Urban and Regional Planning

Volume 7, Issue 3, September 2022

  • Container and Magnet: A New Theory on the Concrete Function of Contemporary Cities

    Zhang Hailun, Tan Shu

    Issue: Volume 7, Issue 3, September 2022
    Pages: 68-73
    Received: 30 May 2022
    Accepted: 22 June 2022
    Published: 18 July 2022
    DOI: 10.11648/j.urp.20220703.11
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    Abstract: Nowadays, cities have dominated human social life, whether it's Eastern society or Western society. This is why this issue is important. It is because urban life is not only related to the present of mankind, but also to the future of mankind. Recognizing the importance and diversity of urban functions can better guide human production and life. Ho... Show More
  • Rethinking Planning and Design Maps: The Potential of Discourse Analysis

    Taki Eddin Sonbli, Philip Black

    Issue: Volume 7, Issue 3, September 2022
    Pages: 74-86
    Received: 24 June 2022
    Accepted: 9 July 2022
    Published: 18 July 2022
    DOI: 10.11648/j.urp.20220703.12
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    Abstract: This paper rethinks the nature of spatial planning and design policy maps and develops a comprehensive analytical framework to help in their analysis. Current research on planning/design maps tends to focus on Western democratic states and also still deals with planning maps as technical tools, or as fixed bearers of a political message. However, p... Show More
  • Research on the Dilemma of the Protection of Rural Historical Buildings

    Yulong Chen

    Issue: Volume 7, Issue 3, September 2022
    Pages: 87-91
    Received: 20 July 2022
    Published: 22 July 2022
    DOI: 10.11648/j.urp.20220703.13
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    Abstract: With the rapid increase of urbanization rate, historical buildings are slowly being replaced by new buildings. In the face of this unavoidable reality, the protection of historical buildings has gradually been paid attention to, and formed a set of procedures for the protection of historical buildings. The use of this set of processes for historica... Show More
  • Economic Vulnerability Assessment and Its Influencing Factors in Tourism-Dependent City of Zhangjiajie City, China

    Li Jia-jia, Shao Yun-lin, Wang Xiang, Deng Hong-xiang, Li Ye-yu, Xie Wen-hai

    Issue: Volume 7, Issue 3, September 2022
    Pages: 92-99
    Received: 27 June 2022
    Accepted: 15 July 2022
    Published: 22 July 2022
    DOI: 10.11648/j.urp.20220703.14
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    Abstract: The emergence of the COVID-19 epidemic has caused a huge impact on the tourism industry in Zhangjiajie, and the economic vulnerability of Zhangjiajie as a tourism-dependent city has been exposed. In order to achieve high-quality and sustainable economic development, we took Zhangjiajie City in China as the research object and constructed the econom... Show More
  • Planning Policy Perspectives on Development of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Practices in Rural Areas: A Tanzanian Diagnosis and Prognosis

    Gordian Wilfred Kazaura, Daniel Wandera Clief Naku

    Issue: Volume 7, Issue 3, September 2022
    Pages: 100-108
    Received: 21 June 2022
    Accepted: 21 July 2022
    Published: 29 July 2022
    DOI: 10.11648/j.urp.20220703.15
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    Abstract: There is good evidence that improving Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) has significant economic and social development benefits. This research used the Opportunities and Obstacles to Development concept (O&OD) from the planning perspective to examine opportunities and obstacles facing the development of WASH practices in rural areas of developi... Show More
  • Investigation and Research on Spatial Types of Maternal and Infant Space in Commercial Space - A Case Study of Beijing

    Ouyang Wen, Zhou Qiang

    Issue: Volume 7, Issue 3, September 2022
    Pages: 109-119
    Received: 21 June 2022
    Accepted: 8 July 2022
    Published: 9 August 2022
    DOI: 10.11648/j.urp.20220703.16
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    Abstract: With the release of the three-child policy and the social environment that encourages breastfeeding, the maternal and infant population has become a special group that can not be ignored in society. They need and have the right to own and use public space. At the same time, China's new generation of young mothers is more willing to take their babie... Show More
  • Post-Independent Development in Nigeria: The University of Ibadan as a Catalyst for the Development of the Agbowo Community (A Rural Area), Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria

    Ogunleye-Adetona Comfort Iyabo, Fejiro Akpooghene Juan

    Issue: Volume 7, Issue 3, September 2022
    Pages: 120-132
    Received: 5 January 2022
    Accepted: 24 January 2022
    Published: 5 September 2022
    DOI: 10.11648/j.urp.20220703.17
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    Abstract: Development involves the processes of economic growth, social welfare, and modernization. The Nigerian government in an attempt to develop the country tried the principle of cumulative causation or the growth-pole approach using the University of Ibadan, Oyo State to facilitate development in the Agbowo community, a rural settlement near the univer... Show More
  • The Influence of Climatic Changes on the Spatial Organization of Riverine Territories

    Vadimov Vadim, Samoilenko Yevheniia

    Issue: Volume 7, Issue 3, September 2022
    Pages: 133-140
    Received: 15 August 2022
    Accepted: 30 August 2022
    Published: 8 September 2022
    DOI: 10.11648/j.urp.20220703.18
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    Abstract: Climate change, due to many unknown factors, is one of the biggest challenges facing humanity today. The main ones among them are: at what speed the processes will take place, what level of climate change is expected at different territorial levels (macro, meso, micro), in different natural and climatic conditions. As well as which regions will be ... Show More